{"id":881,"date":"2026-04-24T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/?page_id=881"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:06:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"881\" class=\"elementor elementor-881\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e19e77 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5e19e77\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-896daac e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"896daac\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b995d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7b995d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAR_in_Shop_3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-743\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAR_in_Shop_3.jpg 717w, https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PAR_in_Shop_3-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1db25b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1db25b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PETERALMA-267x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-744\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PETERALMA-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PETERALMA-910x1024.jpg 910w, https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PETERALMA-768x864.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PETERALMA-1366x1536.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/peter-anthony.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PETERALMA-1821x2048.jpg 1821w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-790a315 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"790a315\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-876133f elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"876133f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>\r\nbody {\r\nfont-family: arial, sans-serif;\r\nfont-size:100%;\r\n\r\n  background-color: #f4f4f9;\r\n  margin: 0;\r\n  padding: 20px;\r\n}\r\n.top-box {\r\n  max-width: 100%;\r\n  margin: auto;\r\n  background: #F7EBDA;\r\n            padding: 20px;\r\n            border-radius: 10px;\r\n            box-shadow: 0 0 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);\r\n        }\r\n<\/style>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"top-box\">\r\n<div  style=\"font-weight: normal; color:#0413A4;font-family: vast shadow, sans-serif;font-size:130%;text-align:center;\">\r\nAbout Anthony Stovold\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p style=\"color:#0413A4;font-size:110%;text-align:left;\">\r\nA life lived in pursuit of connection, from post-war England to the quiet shade of a mango tree in the Philippines.\r\n<br>\r\nBorn in 1947 beside the River Thames, I grew up in a Britain shaped by ration books, rigid schools, and silence. \r\n<br>\r\nHis work explores longing, identity, inheritance, love, loss, and the hidden currents that shape a life over time. Whether writing memoir or literary fiction, he is drawn to stories in which the past continues to live within the present, and in which people are forced to reckon with what they remember, what they conceal, and what they carry forward<br>\r\n\r\nHis books move between England and the Philippines, and sometimes further afield, but they are united by the same concerns: belonging, emotional truth, buried histories, and the search for home.\r\n<br>\r\nThe Road to Myself is his memoir, tracing a life through childhood, boarding school, desire, family, disappointment, renewal, and late-found peace.\r\nThe Ramos Files is a work of literary fiction told across three connected stories of family inheritance, secrecy, memory, and buried truth.\r\n<br>\r\nAnthony Stovold writes not for sensation, but for depth: stories of patience, tenderness, endurance, and the truths that time does not erase.\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"color:#0413A4;font-size:140%;text-align:center;\"><u>Author note<\/u><\/span>\r\n<br>\r\nI came to writing later in life, after many years of living first and understanding afterwards. 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